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Feature, Poetry, Reading Room, What's New

the invention / of the speed of bamboo scrambles in the hands of the young
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“Song 1” by Karmella Cen Benedito De B...

Feature, Indigenous Brilliance, What's New

To celebrate the publication of issue 44.1 Growing Room, we’re delighted to share this song, Song 1, by Karmella Cen Benedito De Barros, Community Engagement Leader for Room. Karmella does incredible work, both inside and outside of this organization, and she was integral to the creation of the day-long Indigenous Brilliance event intended to be […]

Black History Month: Black/Afro-Indigenous Reading...

Feature, Online Events, What's New

Tansi! In our final week celebrating Black History Month with the Indigenous Brilliance Collective and Room Magazine, we are excited to share a short, and by no means exhaustive, list of books and media (including Instagram accounts, films, artwork, music, and podcasts) by or featuring Black/Afro-Indigenous writers and creatives. This list comes to you at […]

Black History Month Interview Feature: Amber Stark...

Indigenous Brilliance, Interview, Reading Room, Uncategorized, What's New

Tansi, hello! Welcome to the final week of our online celebration of Black History Month with the Indigenous Brilliance Collective and Room Magazine. For the month of February, we have been sharing weekly content on the @indigenousbrilliance Instagram page, as well as over here on the Room website. We have shared interviews and content from […]

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Mar 4, 2021 | Feature, Poetry, Reading Room, What's New

the invention / of the speed of bamboo scrambles in the hands of the young
/ determined / to serve the elders that fed them first

“Song 1” by Karmella Cen Benedito De Barros

Mar 1, 2021 | Feature, Indigenous Brilliance, What's New

To celebrate the publication of issue 44.1 Growing Room, we’re delighted to share this song, Song...

Black History Month: Black/Afro-Indigenous Reading and Media List

Feb 26, 2021 | Feature, Online Events, What's New

Tansi! In our final week celebrating Black History Month with the Indigenous Brilliance Collective...

Black History Month Interview Feature: Amber Starks on Blackness and Indigeneity

Feb 22, 2021 | Indigenous Brilliance, Interview, Reading Room, Uncategorized, What's New

Tansi, hello! Welcome to the final week of our online celebration of Black History Month with the...

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Creative Non-Fiction

Lessons for Future Ancestors: Reflections on mentorship with Hiromi Goto

by erica hiroko isomura

"Queer relationships can save lives, not just romantic ones, but platonic friendships, too. Especially because for so many queer people, our families may not know how to affirm or see us."

(Un)masking a Poet as Plural and Porous

by Sanita Fejzić
Where Longing Lives

by Nadine Nakagawa
Thoughts on Community

by Isabella Wang
Sense of Touch

by Linda Trinh

Fiction

A Hundred Unions

by Jen Wei Ting

For their tenth wedding anniversary, Robin and Yu’en planned a small gathering at The Peony, the...

Poetry

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by Isabella Wang

the invention / of the speed of bamboo scrambles in the hands of the young / determined / to serve the elders that fed them first

Contest, Contest Winners

Mind the Sentencing Gap

by Ruchika Gothoskar

Mind the Sentencing Gap is the honourable mention for the 2020 Short Forms Contest, selected by...

Book Reviews

I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind

Dec 7, 2020

I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was T...

Nov 15, 2020

I didn’t want to be read / I wanted / to...

Oct 22, 2020

Look After Her

Jun 25, 2020

Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

Jun 19, 2020

Sonnet’s Shakespeare

Jun 11, 2020

Beauty In a Box: Detangling the Roots of...

May 27, 2020

Tension

May 14, 2020

Whatever, Iceberg

Dec 4, 2018

I’m Not Here

Dec 4, 2018

Don’t Tell Me What to Do

Dec 4, 2018

Where it Hurts

Nov 22, 2018

Table Manners

Nov 22, 2018

Bad Endings

Nov 22, 2018

Tarry This Night

Nov 5, 2018

Letters to My Father

Nov 1, 2018

Children Shouldn’t Use Knives and Other ...

Nov 1, 2018

The Sweetest One

Aug 1, 2018

Homegoing

Aug 1, 2018

a place called No Homeland

Aug 1, 2018

Art Lessons

Jun 19, 2018

Painter, Poet, Mountain: After Cézanne

Jun 19, 2018

If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for Yo...

Jun 19, 2018

Paper Teeth

Jun 20, 2017

Work & Days

Jun 20, 2017

In-Between Days

Apr 8, 2017

Songs of Exile

Apr 8, 2017

Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity a...

Apr 8, 2017

The Theory of Light at Midnight

Nov 2, 2016

Bearskin Diary

Nov 2, 2016

Falling in Love with Hominids

Nov 2, 2016

The Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher

Jun 6, 2016

Prairie Ostrich

May 23, 2016

Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac

May 23, 2016

The Kingdom and After

May 23, 2016

The Homes We Build on Ashes

May 23, 2016

Bodymap

May 23, 2016

The Mystics of Mile End

Feb 16, 2016

Boy Lost in Wild

Feb 15, 2016

The Freedom in American Songs

Feb 14, 2016

One Hundred Days of Rain

Jan 16, 2016

For Your Own Good

Jan 16, 2016

Leak

Dec 16, 2015

Gone South and Other Ways to Disappear

Dec 16, 2015

Cycling with the Dragon

Dec 16, 2015

Bunny and Shark

Dec 16, 2015

Motion Sickness

Dec 16, 2015

Generations Re-merging

Aug 27, 2015

Flowers We Will Never Know the Names Of

Aug 27, 2015

Cease

Aug 27, 2015

The White Crow

Nov 26, 2014

PostApoc

Nov 26, 2014

A Bitter Mood of Clouds

Jul 3, 2014

Dark Water Songs

Jun 9, 2014

Muse

May 6, 2014

Glossolalia

May 6, 2014

She Draws the Rain

May 6, 2014

Women’s Words: An Anthology

Apr 15, 2014

Little Cat

Mar 16, 2014

Whisk

Jan 30, 2014

Bone and Bread

Jan 30, 2014

Everything Rustles

Jan 13, 2014

King of the Class

Jan 5, 2014

How Poetry Saved My Life

Jan 5, 2014

Podcast

The Indigenous Brilliance Podcast – Episode 1 (February 27, 2020): Creation Story

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Stories hold the incredible power to heal wounds, connect people, and bridge generations. This is...

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ROOM 44.1, Growing Room
Edited by Jessica Johns

In This Issue: Afuwa, Amber Dawn, Manahil Bandukwala, Adèle Barclay, Bronwyn Berg, Karmella Cen Benedito De Barros, Cassandra Blanchard, Selina Boan, Tanya Boteju, Francine Cunningham, Jen Currin, Annahid Dashtgard, Dina Del Bucchia
Rebecca Fisseha, Chantal Gibson, Soo Jeong, Aisha Sasha John, Eve Joseph, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Corinne Manning, Domenica Martinello, Tash McAdam, Lucia Misch, Maneo Mohale, Shani Mootoo, Alessandra Naccarato, April dela Noche Milne, Kat Norris, Otoniya J Okot Bitek, Sharon Pink, Hazel Jane Plante, Amal Rana, Rebecca Salazar, Alisha Sian, jaye simpson, Mallory Tater, Kai Cheng Thom, Cheryl Thompson, Erika Thorkelson, Rhea Tregebov, Addie Tsai, Arielle Twist, beni xiao, Adrienne Yeung